Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While this can improve predictive skill, it makes learned relationships difficult to interpret and prone to overfitting as the...
Savannah L. Ferretti, Jerry Lin, Sara Shamekh et al.· 0 citations
Machine-learning approaches to weather forecasting often employ a monolithic architecture in which distinct physical mechanisms, such as advection, diffusive mixing, thermodynamic processes, and forcing, are represented implicitly within a single large neural network. This is particularly problematic for advection, whe...
Carlos A. Pereira, St\'ephane Gaudreault, Valentin Dallerit et al.· 0 citations
This study analyses kinetic energy (KE) spectra, difference kinetic energy (DKE) spectra, and signatures of KE transfer across spatial scales in four state-of-the-art probabilistic machine learning weather prediction (MLWP) models: NeuralGCM-ENS, FourCastNet 3, AIFS-ENS, and GenCast. Results are compared with those fro...
Jiakai Chen, Joel Oskarsson, Simon Driscoll et al.· 0 citations
Despite their high accuracy on point-wise metrics, machine learning weather forecasting models can exhibit different failure modes such as blurring, periodic irregularities, and other unphysical spatial artifacts. This has motivated a variety of metrics to detect known failure cases. Existing metrics fix a representati...
Younes Elberkennou, Dmitri Demler, Thierry Meier et al.· 0 citations
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Rapid and spatially continuous precipitation monitoring is critical for flood, landslide, and other hydrometeorological hazard warnings, particularly in regions where rain-gauge and weather-radar networks are sparse. The coordinated use of heterogeneous satellite observations, including geostationary infrared, passive...
Yun-Fan Yang, Hao-Fei Sun, Xiu-Yu Sun et al.· 0 citations
Near-surface weather varies over tens to hundreds of meters, yet remains unresolved in analyses and forecasts. We test whether this variation can be inferred without resolving atmospheric dynamics. Combining sparse weather stations, high-resolution Earth observation, and coarse atmospheric dynamics, we infer temperatur...
Jonathan Giezendanner, Qidong Yang, Ruizhe Huang et al.· 0 citations
We present IRENE (Italian Radar Ensemble Nowcasting Experiment), a deep learning model for probabilistic short-range precipitation nowcasting over the Italian domain at \SI{1}{km} spatial and 5 min temporal resolution. IRENE adopts an encoder--forecaster architecture built on multi-scale Convolutional Gated Recurrent U...
Alessandro Camilletti, Gabriele Franch, Elena Tomasi et al.· 0 citations
Medium-range weather forecasting underpins operational and planning decisions across the energy industry. Developing competitive weather models was once the domain of national meteorological centers, but recent advances in machine-learned weather prediction (MLWP) have opened the field to industry. We present Aries, a...
Lukas Hedegaard Morsing, Arian Bakhtiarnia, Jonas Lynge Olesen et al.· 0 citations
Subgrid parametrizations of vertical mixing in ocean models depend on free coefficients that cannot be measured directly and must be calibrated against high-fidelity references such as large-eddy simulations (LES). Existing approaches return point estimates and leave the associated uncertainty unquantified, a limitatio...
Luben M. C. Cabezas, Sacha Wendling, Aur\`ele Gallard et al.· 0 citations
Marine ecosystems are increasingly impacted by climate change, necessitating tools to identify and predict spatial habitat information. To build such tools, ecological marine provinces,"eco-provinces", ecologically meaningful regions in the global ocean can be used. We use unsupervised machine learning (ML) to identify...
Robert Smithson's 1970 land artwork Spiral Jetty, located in the north arm of Utah's Great Salt Lake, has alternated between submergence and exposure during severe lake decline. We analyze 1,744 co-registered Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel-2 image chips spanning every year and calendar month from 1984 to 2025. A 14-feature c...
Imbalanced labels can cause frequent samples to dominate AI-based quantitative remote sensing, degrading rare-event retrieval. In rain-rate retrieval based on satellite infrared brightness temperatures, this imbalance leads to systematic underestimation of rare high-intensity rainfall. In this study, Hurdle-Retrieval M...
Fangjian Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhuge, Wenlan Wang et al.· 0 citations
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.